Spring-clamp.



N0. 717,729. PATENTED JAN, 6, 1903.

A. WESTBROUK. SPRING CLAMP.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 8, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

NANCY A. WEST'BROOK, OF MASON,

BENJAMIN F. GOOOH, OF MASON, TEXAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,729, dated January6, 1903.

Application filed May 8, 1902.

Serial No. 106,474. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NANCY A. WEsrBRooK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mason,in the county of Mason and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Spring-Clamp, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices for suspending small articles-such astowels, dishcloths, and napkins-and which may also be employed forhanging window-curtains, portieres, goods in show-windows, and similarpurposes; and the invention consists in the improved construction andarrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, illustrative of the invention, Figure l is aperspective view of thedevice, and Fig. 2 is a similar view illustratinga modification in the construction.

In this invention are comprised two *bars 5 and 6, having opposing jaws7 and 8 at one end, preferably with interlocking serrations 9, as shownin Fig. 2, and diverging at the other ends and preferably extendedintorfinger-grips or thumb-pieces l0 and ll,as shown. The two bars areshown united by a springrod 12 with a central eye 13, the force of thespring being exerted to maintain the jaws 7 and 8 normally closed.Permanently engaging the eye 13 of the spring-rod 12 isa screweye 14, bywhich means the clamp may be socured in any required locality.

In Fig. 2 the screw-eye 14 is shown with its ring portion large enoughto permit the finger-grip ends of the clamp to pass through the eye, sothat the clamp will hang vertically or in alinement with thescreweye,which will be the form employed when the device is suspendedfrom a ceiling or from the lower sides of shelves or from the ceilingsof wardrobes and closets and in similar localities, while the form shownin Fig. 1 will be'preferable where the device is to be employed In Fig.2 the opposing jaws are shown with interengaging teeth or serrations 9,which may be desirable under some circumstances to increase the grip ofthe jaws.

The serrated jaws may be required in holding some kinds of articles, butmay not be required for others, and I do not wish to be limited to theiruse, as they may be employed or not, as required.

The form of clip herein shown may be altered and modified within thescope of my invention, provided that the main feature of the device,which consists of the spring member connecting the two clamping membersand formed with an eye engaged by a perma- V nently-attached screw-eye,is retained. In this feature, it will be observed, lies the improvementover present devices of this class, and I would have it speciallynoticed that by. using a large screw-eye, as shown in Fig. 2, the devicemay be suspended in a vertical position and conveniently operated. Thistically permanent part of the article.

What I claim is As a new article of manufacture, a clamp comprising twoclamping members provided at opposite ends thereof with clamping-jaws"and thumb-pieces, a spring permanently connecting said clamping membersand having 'a 'coil formed thereon, and a screw-eye permanently engagingsaid coil, said screw-eye being sufficiently large to admit the opposingthumb-pieces of the device when vertically disposed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

NANCY A. WESTBROOK.

Witnesses:

T. J. Ponor, A. E. FORMAN.

upon vertical walls or in similar localities.

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